I use the dictation feature in email and notes pretty constantly. It's remarkably accurate with zero training needed, and is much faster than typing by hand. Also saves on hand strain.
It's a Python script that takes in some options (which image, your github username, etc) and generates a bash script. Running the bash script actually makes the commits on the correct days to populate the pixels.
They're a large part of why I've almost entirely stopped reading comments on HN. Too many people more interested in being right than having an actual discussion.
1) no, but I do notice this seems to be more pervasive in the USA. I have very good female friends in tech here. NONE say they notice sexism.
2) again no, and I point to 1, I am talking about my personal experience
3) For fuck's sake, really? Every woman wants to be a programmer, but we men are way too sexist to let it happen. Did you get you 'Prevent your woman from attending CS whip' yet? I sure like to use mine! That is what is fucking happening in the world. My entire post was about MY experience with women in and out of tech. Not some grand generalisation about women. But having a freaking PG idea that men and women are 100% equal, biologically is pretty dumb. Men are attracted to different things than women, and it is POSSIBLE (only possible) that CS is one of those things.
4) Why not? How many Portuguese CEO's on Silicon Valley are there? Or black CEO's? Or do we just care about the women but not native american men? Or asian? Or brazilian? Heck, if any grant should be given, it's probably to out of NY people (men and women) as they have the most to lose by moving there to attend Hacker School.
I'll tell you one thing, you can get many women here talking about being discriminated against, but honestly, as a man, I probably been more discriminated than them. I decided to take a break a while ago from CS to work with special needs children. For that I needed a degree in either elementary teaching or kindergarden teacher before getting my specialisation. I chose kindergarden. I can bet you a million bucks I was more discriminated there than any women at a Python or Ruby conference (I was sexually assaulted, I had parents refusing to let me be with their kids, I had internships refused, had bad grades as I couldn't turn in some papers as I wasn't allowed to do my job).
I can report that the Parse course is now correctly working. Thank you!
I'll check tomorrow if I'm still having issues with Twilio. I also got my provision rejected from Sendgrid, but I'm trying to solve this on my own. EDIT: Solved!
